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OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch — OpenAI “cannot rule out” that its upcoming model Astra has"critical" cyber capabilities, a designation that has prompted …
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LinkedIn: Madison Mills and Katrina Mulligan
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/codex
| Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5 — TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3 — ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including building a ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju — SK Hynix Inc. plans a 54 trillion won ($38 billion) expansion of its chipmaking facilities in South Korea, the memory chip maker said in a statement Friday.
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Security researchers claim that Kimi K3 went outside of its sandbox during defensive cybersecurity tests, but did not hack anything after accessing the internet — Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
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Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and r/singularity
| SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute — GCP YoY rev growth >100%, DeepMind's long term failure is Google Cloud's short term gain — On Wednesday, August 5th …
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At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment — The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI When AI Goes Rogue.
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| Reuters: |
The US Treasury sanctions Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit, alleging it processed millions in crypto for IRGC and other Iran-linked groups — The United States on Friday sanctioned an unlicensed multi-state cryptocurrency exchange, alleging it processed millions of dollars …
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 — Microsoft's plan for Edge means that uBlock Origin users are losing one of their browser options.| Anthropic: |
Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by ~85% in testing across product surfaces — We're making updates to Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives.
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| Reuters: |
The White House imposes price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon, the raw material used in chips that is primarily produced by China — The White House on Thursday imposed a series of price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon …
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Take-Two reports Q1 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.38B est., forecasts Q2 and FY 2027 bookings below est., and highlights excitement for GTA VI's launch — Take-Two Interactive (TTWO.O) maintained its annual bookings forecast on Friday, but reiterated the November 19 launch date …
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New Mexico trial: a judge orders Meta to pay $567M and make changes for underage users after finding its platforms helped create a public nuisance harming teens — SANTA FE, N.M. - A Santa Fe judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million, and make changes for the user experience of juvenile accounts …
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| Grace Kay / The Information: |
Sources: Cursor told staff on Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out — Cursor told staff at an all-hands meeting on Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup …
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 — Whatnot, started in a Funko Pop-flooded rental house, is now a $20 billion company. — The live commerce platform exclusively told Fortune …
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Nielsen agrees to acquire and take digital media monitor DoubleVerify private in an all-cash deal with a ~$2.15B enterprise value, expected to close by Q1 2027 — Audience-measurement giant Nielsen said it would acquire the digital-media monitor DoubleVerify in an all-cash transaction … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE — Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals as its new leadership looks …
More: Financial Times
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare debuts Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta in Browser Run — Cloudflare is the latest company to join the race to build a new web browser. But instead of pitching a Chrome alternative to consumers … | Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: |
Munich-based NavVis, which provides enterprises with spatial data on factories, plants, buildings, and more, raised an $85M Series D led by The Jordan Company — NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform for the built world, has raised a €73.7 million ($85 million) …
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| Nat Ives / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad measurement company VideoAmp cut ~20% of its staff this week, citing that “AI is a major platform shift”; sources: 50 to 60 were laid off, including the CTO — Plus, Claire's redesigns its ear-piercing experience to compete with trendy studiosSponsor Posts
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